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Chrismtas Parties (1890)

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Excerpted from the December 30, 1889 Creswell Letter:

Christmas came and passed off very quietly.  The young people have been enjoying the holidays hugely. They had a party at the residence of Mr. Johnson SPRUILL, 2 1/2 miles from town on Monday night 23 inst., another at the residence of Capt. CAHOON in town, on Xmas night, and on Thursday night 26 inst., the grandest party of the season was given by Mr. A.G. WALKER of our place, to his children.

While it was a children’s party, yet quite a number of the children were grown, and many married people were also present, and all seemed to enjoy themselves.  Those who wished to dance had a large room at their disposal, furnished with a stringed band, and those whose religious scruples prohibited their dancing, had another large room in which they could engage in plays of various kinds furnished with piano music, while others who wished to take no part in playing and dancing, had a large parlor in which they could enjoy a quiet “tete a tete,” and at nine or ten o’clock refreshments in great abundance was served, and at about 12 o’clock the party broke up.  Everything passed off very pleasantly, and all pronounced it grand.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 3 January 1890.  Available online at digitalnc.org.

SEWELL, Edward and TADLOCK, Mollie – (m. 1889)

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Source: Roanoke Beacon, 20 December 1889. Available online at DigitalNC.org

MARTIN, Charlie and NEWBERRY, Bertha – (m. 1889)

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Source: Roanoke Beacon, 20 December 1889. Available online at DigitalNC.org

Mackey’s Ferry Letter (December 9, 1889)

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The following items are excerpted from the Mackey’s Ferry Letter column:

  • Mr. Winfield SPRUILL’s little boy has his thigh bone broken while picking up potatoes under the cart last Saturday morning.  The cart dumped on him and caused his misfortune.
  • The Rev. R.B. COLLIER was on time to fill his appointment at Frasier’s School House yesterday, the second Sunday. He preached, as usual, with great power, to a very respectable congregation.  His text was very appropriate : “The barrel of meal wasteth not.”  He set forth the unquestionable facts that if we would trust God, though there might be even a famine for three years and six months, that the children of God would be cared for.  He also inferred from the text a lesson of self-denial, showing how the poor widow woman was blessed for her willingness to share the last morsel with the old prophet Elijah.
  • There was three new comers in the neighborhood recently, W.S. DAVENPORT, J.A.S. DAVENPORT, and W.R. BASNIGHT are the lucky men.  Children born in these days will probably be tough.
  • Mr. Wiggins CLAGON is having his nets repaired for fishing.
  • Mr. L.C. MARRINER has run a part of the walling around his two-acre lot at the Ferry and will begin his house in a few days.  He has built one small tenant house for his watchman and is building a drying house to store his lumber.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 13 December 1889. Available online at DigitalNC.org

Rev. C.W. Robinson Returns (1889)

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Rev. C.W. ROBINSON has been returned to this charge.  Our entire people could not have been better suited.  He has done a faithful work during the past year and his efforts will not be less during the coming year.  Both as a servant of God and as a man he has won the confidence and love of all who know him, and with one voice they welcome his return.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 13 December 1889. Available online at DigitalNC.org